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Waiting for the Barbarians (John Maxwell Coetzee)
Dissertation - Anglais - 6 pages - Format Microsoft Word
History is written in words and historians are not even sure if what they write is true to what could be called "historical reality". This is at least what John Maxwell Coetzee hints at in the quotation: "History is not reality. History is a kind of discourse…The categories of History are a certain construction put upon reality." We are going to see in what way Waiting for the Barbarians can be an illustration of this quotation by examining the difficulties of finding "historical truth", how it can be manipulated to tell a story which is conform to a given vision of the past and how this is particularly acute for a South African writer.
Plan du document :
1. Waiting for the Barbarians can be an illustration of this quotation by examining the difficulties of finding ‘historical truth’
2. It can be manipulated to tell a story which is conform to a given vision of the past
3. This is particularly acute for a South African writer
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